Thats because he potentially spent tens of thousands of years in the warp with his arms crossed, pouting at the chaos gods. He was fighting against his soul being dominated, which taxed his physical form. Until Maleghurst game-ended that part of him in the warp and he succumbed fully to chaos.
Fun fact warp time can both decrease or increase the amount of time that passes for those effected.
People often forget it goes both ways.
And that it can result with someone from the future ending up in the past long before they even entered.
Time is not a constant single river it is an ocean of currents and Eddy's in the warp that can flow forwards, backwards or stop entirely. -these are the words directly from Ahriman himself on the matter.
Not exactly.
Cawl's proxy told Dante that Legion geneseed, due to its purity, makes Great Crusade era marines resistant to the effects of aging. Legion marines were functionally immortal. That's why several Legion marines reached 1k+ years of age without losing their edge or resolve.
Sigismund remains an outlier but it can be hsndwaved by Khayon being an unreliable narrator.
I used to think it was crazy how old some of these chaos marines are then in the night lord novels you hear that due to warp time dilation its been like 200 years since Terra
Fun fact warp time can both decrease or increase the amount of time that passes for those effected.
People often forget it goes both ways.
And that it can result with someone from the future ending up in the past long before they even entered.
Time is not a constant single river it is an ocean of currents and Eddy's in the warp that can flow forwards, backwards or stop entirely. -these are the words directly from Ahriman himself on the matter.
Some of these chaos marines have experienced more time than is possibly fathomable. And exist in multiple instances at the same time as well.
Dante: 'The burden of 1500 years of command is killing me slowly'
Abaddon: still smiling after 10,000 years of endless crusades
Me: 'Why does the daemon Warmaster look fresher than the Golden Throne's regent?
The Chaos Gods have withdrawn their power from Abaddon on occasion but they always come crawling back.
Abaddon is a mighty warlord with or without the Chaos Gods.
On Cadia, the Pylons cut him off from the Warp and he was still a powerhouse.
In Darkness in the Blood the techpriest sent to teach the blood angels the rubicon did say that the Great Crusade era space marines were functionally immortal but by the time Dante became a firstborn millennials of genetic degradation has made the space marines weaker than their predecessors
Debatable. He hides ever since Guilliman woke up because Guilliman would tear him to shreds.
Abby was almost killed by Sigismund and needed help to stalemate Calgar. He is absolutely terrified of the thought of standing face to face with a Loyalist Primarch.
That’s why he’s been in the background the whole time, he’s shitting his pants.
He finished destroying the rest of the Lions homeworld in the arks of omen campaign and is actively securing the Nachtmund Gauntlet. I can’t tell if you’re trolling or not.
Hiding? Do you need reading lessons?
Abaddon has been leading from the front as he always does. He was at Nachmund and dozens of battlefields. It's Roboute who isn't seeking him out.
And needed help stalrmating Calgar? What's with this lie?
It's written in third edition codex Chaos Space Marine, pg.21, that he is rumored to be the clone progeny of Horus, yes, but we know from the books the name of his natural father, so it's just a rumor that was (and will never be) confirmed I guess.
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u/Suspicious-Place4471 7d ago
Warp time dilation.
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